5I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
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Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-10)God here asserts his sole and sovereign dominion, as that which he designed to prove and manifest to the world in all the great things he did for Cyrus and by him. Observe, I. How this doctrine is here laid down concerning the sovereignty of the great Jehovah, in two things:—1. That he is God alone, and there is no God besides him. This is here inculcated as a fundamental truth, which, if it were…
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